For the better part of two decades, whether we liked it or not, and for the majority of Kenyan consumers and businesses, the default mode for making and receiving digital payments has been Safaricom’s M-PESA. M-PESA, in no uncertain terms, is critical infrastructure for all things digital payments across a myriad

I was not supposed to be at the HONOR Kenya Channel Summit last week. I had no prior knowledge of it, no invitation, no briefing deck in my inbox. I bumped into someone I know — a veteran of Kenya’s smartphone distribution industry who previously worked at another OEM — and within a few

Timing in the brutally competitive telecommunications sector in Kenya and globally is rarely accidental as market shares can rise and fall sharply on the back of a well timed marketing campaign or a disruptive new offering. Therefore, the announcement earlier today of Airtel Kenya’s new “Refer and Earn” campaign for